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Negro folk singing games and folk games of the Habitants

by: Porter, Grace Cleveland, transcriber; Loomis, Harvey Worthington, 1865-1930, adapter

Publication date: 1914

Topics: Folk songs, English, African Americans, Folk songs, French, French-Canadians, Singing games

Publisher: London : J. Curwen & Sons

Collection: bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English; French

Item Size: 156.0M

Includes instructions for the games; French songs have English translations

A tonic sol-fa notation is added

Marchin' on dis camp groun' -- Your darlin', my darlin' -- De Queen ob Englan' -- I'm walkin' on the levee -- I los' mah mistis' dairy key -- Bounce aroun' -- Come, mah little darlin' -- Fly roun' -- The needle's eye -- Mah heart's gone away to Loosiana -- Turn, cinnamon, turn -- King and queen -- I've lost a partner -- La Bastringue -- L'hirondelle = The swallow -- Il n'y a qu'un seul Dieu = There is but one God